Essay About Citizen Of The United States And United States Constitution

Abortion: The Right To Choose
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Pro-choice does not mean Pro-abortion, it is the right in choosing whether
to reproduce, adopt, or abort. It is every human beings right to make their
own decisions, and so it is a womans right to make the choices that affect
her life as she sees morally right. It is a womans right to choose what she
does with her body and it should not be altered or influenced by anyone
else. Abortion is not murder because it is not taking the life of an actual
human being an actual human being. Asking a woman to sacrifice her life
for an embryo, is not upholding the right to life that Pro-life activists so whole
heartily believe in, rather it is condemning her to sacrifice her life for
something that is not yet human.
Abortion deals with a womans private life. The Constitution grants every
citizen of the United States the freedom to make their own choices as they
see morally right, as long as it does not violate any laws. The ninth
amendment states: ” The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,
shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
(United States Constitution) This right guarantees the right to women, if they so
choose, to have an abortion. Regardless the morals of others, a woman has
the right to do as she see fit according to her own beliefs. A womans body is
hers and hers alone, no one has the right to make her do something that she
does not want to. Abortion deals with a womans private life.
Murder is defined as “unlawfully killing a human being”. A fetus is not a
human being. It is not a being, it is a potential human being. A fetus is not
yet a baby, it is human tissue. It does not posses the criteria of what we
understand living human beings to have. It is not conscious, it does not
possess self-awareness, it cannot communicate nor can it reason.
Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a right
to life. A piece of protoplasm has no rights–and no life in the human
sense of the term. An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a
potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until
it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the
unborn) body? (Ayn Rand,